Ryan, who was “mad as a hornet” after he read the New York Daily News story, held a team meeting where players described him as both angry and so upset that he openly cried.

“Rex has always been a fighter, and he taught us how to fight,” running back Joe McKnight said. “… It hurt him to say stuff like that. He was crying, too, he was that mad, that hurt. You hurt a man like that, and he cries.”